08 February 2019
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
suffixes: –able or -ible |
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| adorable | horrible |
| considerable | Possible |
| comfortable | legible |
| enjoyable | incredible |
| reliable | sensible |
| changeable | terrible |
| laughable | visible |
01 February 2019
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Suffix ‘shun’ : -cian |
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| magician | dietician |
| musician | politician |
| technician | clinician |
| optician | mathematician |
| electrician | statistician |
25 January 2019
A reminder of the spelling activity grid.
| 1. Spot the Word
Look to see if you can spot smaller words inside the spelling word eg; friend, vegetable. |
2. Speed Write
Choose some words from the spelling list. How many times can you write the same word in one minute? |
3. Rainbow Words
Break a word down into syllables and write each part in a different colour eg; im / poss / i / ble |
| 4. Mnemonic
Write a mnemonic to remember the spelling: the first letter of each word in the sentence spells the word eg; because: big elephants can’t always use small exits. |
5. Backwards Words
Write out the spelling word forwards and then backwards eg; communicate / etacinummoc |
6. Silly Sentences
Write silly sentences with a spelling word in each. Underline the spelling word. |
| 7. Connect the Dots
Write the spelling words using dots, then connect the dots by tracing over them with a coloured pencil. |
8. Spelling Tennis
Play with somebody at home and evidence it in your homework book. One person starts with the first letter of the word; the other person says the next letter. The last person to add a letter, wins! |
9. Musical Words
Make up a little thyme, rap or song to remember words or rules for spellings eg; Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs F,F,I, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs L, T, Y- difficulty. |
25 January 2019
This week’s spelling list
| Complete a spelling activity from the spelling grid.
Suffix ‘shun’ : tion, sion, ssion |
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| protection | persuasion |
| competition | infusion |
| occupation | confession |
| accommodation | expression |
| explosion | mission |
| occasion | discussion |
25 January 2019
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 31 January.
Year 1
This week, we have been looking at adding the suffix ‘ed’ to a word to use it in the past tense. Don’t get tricked out when it sometimes sounds like a ‘t’ though!
| look | looked | call | called | ask | asked | jump | jumped |
Year 2
In phonics, you’ve been learning about the alternative pronunciations of vowels. All of these words have vowels in that are said differently.
| bath | class | half | many | busy | money | sugar | only |
Choose one of the following activities to complete using your spelling words.
Choose one of the following activities to complete using your spelling words.
18 January 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling list to be tested on Friday 25 January.
Year 1 words:
| it’s | were | don’t | come | when | I’m | will | by |
Year 2 words:
| fast | father | grass | last | pass | path | plant | water |
11 January 2019
You can change nouns and adjectives into verbs by using the suffixes: ify, ate and ise.
The spelling activity this week is to sort nouns and adjectives by adding these suffixes.
Examples include popular, advert, pure, real, computer, active, author and equal. Which suffix can you add to these words?
11 January 2019
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling task and is due on Thursday 17 January.
Year 1 words
| it’s | were | don’t | come | when | I’m | will | by |
Year 2 words
| fast | father | grass | last | pass | path | plant | water |
Choose one of the following activities to complete.
07 December 2018
This week, we’ve continued to learn about prefixes.
Please learn all the words we created in class ready for a spelling test next week. The words we looked at had the prefixes:
- mid
- pre
- fore
- un
07 December 2018
This week’s spelling homework is a spelling list to be tested on Friday 14 December.
Year 1
| but | up | some | so | not | then | go | no |
Year 2
| look | looked | jump | jumped | back | backed | wish | wished |